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happy Mothers day! :)
May. 13th, 2007 10:00 amWell first and foremost, I forgot to mention who was the first to get evicted last Sunday. It was Kate! She seemed very bubbly on stage and her future show appearances! She does seem pretty nice, though in the house, she was a tad over the top!
Last night we went to parents and T was also there. Was pretty good! I spent a bit of time playing with the animals while everyone else was watching australia's funniest home vidio show. Ang and t had gone out to a band though! -- the socialites versus the boringites on a Sat night -- at least Ang has been known to put in her word in the past about how I "don't go out". Nope, never been one to overly enjoy outings at nights; especially on weekends! I've always preferred my outings to take place during the day thank you! Nor have I ever been wanting to experience the nightclub sceen, but that's me. I'm quiet, Ang is more a rager! An enjoyable Saturday night is staying home, preferably with company, and/or at a friends place with a smallish group at the most! yeah! -- anyway I'm in a contemplative mood and have been since I woke at 6 and couldn't sleep. I ended up listening to more of "the history of RVIB" which I'm listening to in stages again! Brilliant recording that, absolutely brillianto!
I'm often left wondering what my life would be like if I lived back then; before any form of computers, but where individuals devised all their own entertainment. What it would be like to live in an "institution" and what years from the late 18 hundreds til 1960's (when the St. Kilda rd building closed the school) would I be preferring and why.
Bottom line is, would I rather be old and wise now? or my young self, growing up with the people I have, and hence befriending many of the ones my age, being able to relate better to them as oppose to the older ones who have had all those different experiences.
then I got to thinking about little cousin Kae and her entrance into this world in 2000; what a good year to be born -- start of a new decade and century! But people like her, and indeed ones born ten or so years before, would know nothing different then a world of computers and advanced technologies.
As with me, I wasn't quite born into computers, but they slowly came into family homes as a luxury during my childhood!
I wasn't born when CDs were out, but it was still records. So, all my children's entertainment were on vinel! -- I have fond memories of a 10-year old Ang liking jason donoven (she may kill me if she read this) and having one of his singles on vinel - forget exactly what one it was now.
Indeed, the first CD I ever got was when I was still pretty much only into country music and I think I must have been about 12 or so and Aunt Mich got me three country ones for me birthday!
aah the memories, and all from talking about that awesome RVIB history! -- Stan Hedger was indeed one of the heads of RVIB during the 20's and 30's that sounded like he built great blocks, even for us kids a lot later! But his add campaigns certainly made a lot of people cringe! How would I have coped with that?
I do remember one time on an Around the Institute when Jamie Kelly had brought in some old audio archives, and included in that was an add with a group of kids singing
"hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such fun" ..
and then there was silence, and a voiceover guy said very matter of factually "sadly, these children will never see any fun" .. and so it went on! I know I cringed from my bed when I heard that! -- one can laugh now, but the History goes that a lot of the poor kids hated it -- especially when they were older with their sighted peers!
As bad as that all sounds, I have to admire Mister Hedger for what he did! -- he was the one who, upon his arrival in 1920, modernized everything at the school and made the student's life a lot more enjoyable by the far better living conditions and the better quality food. -- good on ya, is what I have to say. It seemed he was the first one that really treated them like somethings, not nothings who had to be there with no-where else to go, so why not just give them scraps that the other shops can't sell at the end of the day!
.. anyway .. ahem .. I got off track big time, but nothing wrong with that. I then got to thinking about Caroline and her recent stint on Neighbours! -- indeed there's an example of a girl who is really following her dream.
After doing the acting classes at the rehearsalroom, she went on to tell me she was thinking of enrolling in tafta, and was asking me if I was going too. Though I wanted too, the Jan russ course said ya had to have some acting classes already up your sleeve, and cos I didn't have that, I didn't consider it really. sure, I have camera experience though. But after having filled C in on my new part time job and all, she suggested that since I have every second week off, why not get myself involved in these courses if I wanted. It had never occurred to me that while I can't study part time, I could certainly continue my short courses. I hadn't given it a thought before this, probably cos I was settling into my job and stuff, but I dread my weeks off because of fear of boredum, so why not continue a long undying dream of mine, and who knows what can happen?
so having said all this, I may start looking at tafta again, and really talking to them, and when I come back from overseas, may throw myself in something again! -- if memory serves, I think they're somewhere in glenwaverly - around my area will of course be ideal! -- I just loved units 1 and 2 drama so it won't be a foreign area! Just got to get people on my side.
then of course there's heaps of other things I could take up. For some time, I have been still interested to go back to singing. -- and see I've now got extra money to do more things I really want! -- so that's me!
wow, I've gone on for a while here! Time to have breaky soon!
til next time, RdFreak
P.S. Life isn't too bad if I continue to take my ciprinal. I'll never go off them again.
Last night we went to parents and T was also there. Was pretty good! I spent a bit of time playing with the animals while everyone else was watching australia's funniest home vidio show. Ang and t had gone out to a band though! -- the socialites versus the boringites on a Sat night -- at least Ang has been known to put in her word in the past about how I "don't go out". Nope, never been one to overly enjoy outings at nights; especially on weekends! I've always preferred my outings to take place during the day thank you! Nor have I ever been wanting to experience the nightclub sceen, but that's me. I'm quiet, Ang is more a rager! An enjoyable Saturday night is staying home, preferably with company, and/or at a friends place with a smallish group at the most! yeah! -- anyway I'm in a contemplative mood and have been since I woke at 6 and couldn't sleep. I ended up listening to more of "the history of RVIB" which I'm listening to in stages again! Brilliant recording that, absolutely brillianto!
I'm often left wondering what my life would be like if I lived back then; before any form of computers, but where individuals devised all their own entertainment. What it would be like to live in an "institution" and what years from the late 18 hundreds til 1960's (when the St. Kilda rd building closed the school) would I be preferring and why.
Bottom line is, would I rather be old and wise now? or my young self, growing up with the people I have, and hence befriending many of the ones my age, being able to relate better to them as oppose to the older ones who have had all those different experiences.
then I got to thinking about little cousin Kae and her entrance into this world in 2000; what a good year to be born -- start of a new decade and century! But people like her, and indeed ones born ten or so years before, would know nothing different then a world of computers and advanced technologies.
As with me, I wasn't quite born into computers, but they slowly came into family homes as a luxury during my childhood!
I wasn't born when CDs were out, but it was still records. So, all my children's entertainment were on vinel! -- I have fond memories of a 10-year old Ang liking jason donoven (she may kill me if she read this) and having one of his singles on vinel - forget exactly what one it was now.
Indeed, the first CD I ever got was when I was still pretty much only into country music and I think I must have been about 12 or so and Aunt Mich got me three country ones for me birthday!
aah the memories, and all from talking about that awesome RVIB history! -- Stan Hedger was indeed one of the heads of RVIB during the 20's and 30's that sounded like he built great blocks, even for us kids a lot later! But his add campaigns certainly made a lot of people cringe! How would I have coped with that?
I do remember one time on an Around the Institute when Jamie Kelly had brought in some old audio archives, and included in that was an add with a group of kids singing
"hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such fun" ..
and then there was silence, and a voiceover guy said very matter of factually "sadly, these children will never see any fun" .. and so it went on! I know I cringed from my bed when I heard that! -- one can laugh now, but the History goes that a lot of the poor kids hated it -- especially when they were older with their sighted peers!
As bad as that all sounds, I have to admire Mister Hedger for what he did! -- he was the one who, upon his arrival in 1920, modernized everything at the school and made the student's life a lot more enjoyable by the far better living conditions and the better quality food. -- good on ya, is what I have to say. It seemed he was the first one that really treated them like somethings, not nothings who had to be there with no-where else to go, so why not just give them scraps that the other shops can't sell at the end of the day!
.. anyway .. ahem .. I got off track big time, but nothing wrong with that. I then got to thinking about Caroline and her recent stint on Neighbours! -- indeed there's an example of a girl who is really following her dream.
After doing the acting classes at the rehearsalroom, she went on to tell me she was thinking of enrolling in tafta, and was asking me if I was going too. Though I wanted too, the Jan russ course said ya had to have some acting classes already up your sleeve, and cos I didn't have that, I didn't consider it really. sure, I have camera experience though. But after having filled C in on my new part time job and all, she suggested that since I have every second week off, why not get myself involved in these courses if I wanted. It had never occurred to me that while I can't study part time, I could certainly continue my short courses. I hadn't given it a thought before this, probably cos I was settling into my job and stuff, but I dread my weeks off because of fear of boredum, so why not continue a long undying dream of mine, and who knows what can happen?
so having said all this, I may start looking at tafta again, and really talking to them, and when I come back from overseas, may throw myself in something again! -- if memory serves, I think they're somewhere in glenwaverly - around my area will of course be ideal! -- I just loved units 1 and 2 drama so it won't be a foreign area! Just got to get people on my side.
then of course there's heaps of other things I could take up. For some time, I have been still interested to go back to singing. -- and see I've now got extra money to do more things I really want! -- so that's me!
wow, I've gone on for a while here! Time to have breaky soon!
til next time, RdFreak
P.S. Life isn't too bad if I continue to take my ciprinal. I'll never go off them again.
